Hugonauts: The Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time
By Brent Gaisford, Cody Troyer
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Huw
May 1, 2026
Fantastic podcast, realy considered and insightful and fun to listen to!
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Explore the best of sci-fi with Brent and Cody. Each episode dives into a single book or series in the sci-fi cannon. Author interviews, reviews and analysis, and related book recommendations. Happy reading y'all!
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Ranking the Best Sci-Fi Movies & TV Shows Based on Books
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Oct 20, 2026 |
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Ranking the Sci-Fi greats - Books that won both the Hugo & Nebula
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Sep 29, 2026 |
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Flowers for Algernon - An incredible, timeless classic!
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Sep 08, 2026 |
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Ranking the 2026 Hugo nominees plus the other best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of the year!
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Aug 18, 2026 |
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Accelerando absolutely blew our minds with its crazy, realistic science ideas!
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Jul 28, 2026 |
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The Best Military Sci-Fi Books of All Time - with a legend of SF!
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Jul 07, 2026 |
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Horror & Fantasy we actually loved - 2026 Nebula books!
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Jun 16, 2026 |
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The Best of Sci-Fi and Fantasy - YA Books so Good we Loved them as Adults
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May 26, 2026 |
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The Devils by Joe Abercrombie - Monsters, the Pope, and a hell of a lot of good jokes!
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May 05, 2026 |
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There Is No Antimemetics Division - This Book Erases Itself From Your Mind
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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Project Hail Mary - Book vs Movie (plus other sci-fi book to movie recommendations)
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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The Dark Tower: Unraveling Stephen King's Mid-World
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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PAGE TURNERS: 15 binge-worthy Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books!
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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The Best Space Operas Ever Written - the biggest stories and the best characters!
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age - Nanotech, Atom-scale 3D Printers, and a subversive Primer!
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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The Myths that Inspired Fantasy and Sci-Fi
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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Best Starter Science Fiction Books
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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Cloud Atlas - A genre-bending book we can't stop thinking about!
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe - Full Audiobook
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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The Best Time Travel Books... of all time
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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I Who Have Never Known Men - Review and Analysis
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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Interview with Robert Jackson Bennett - Author of The Tainted Cup!
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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The Culture Series by Iain M. Banks - would utopia make you happy?
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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Ranking the 2025 Hugo nominees plus 4 more of the best sci-fi and fantasy books of the year!
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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2025 Nebula winner and nominees - the best fantasy books of the year?
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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The 10 Best Fantasy Books and Series of all time!
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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Redshirts by John Scalzi - funny, rule-breaking scifi!
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May 20, 2025 |
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The God's Themselves - Asimov answering the biggest question in the universe!
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Altered Carbon - Wild tech, visceral action, and an unhinged plot!
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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Great North Road by Peter F. Hamilton - An Incredible Space Opera!
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Interview with Ann Leckie - author of Ancillary Justice!
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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The 14 Best First Contact Books
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Ministry for the Future - Heatwaves, Super-Storms, and Cutting-Edge Climate Tech!
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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A Clockwork Orange - the classic dystopia of crime and punishment!
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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Neuromancer by William Gibson - an unforgettable world of sleek techno-criminals, AI, and body mods!
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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The Silo Series by Hugh Howey - Wool, Shift, and Dust
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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The Best Dystopian Books of All Time
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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The Mercy of Gods - Reviewing James S. A. Corey's new book
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell - A doomed mission to an alien planet!
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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Starship Troopers: the deeply Philosophical classic of Military Sci-Fi!
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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12 Books - the best of last year! Ranking the Hugos plus Six More
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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7 Amazing, Short Sci-Fi Books for when you need a quick read!
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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Embassytown - Aliens who are truly alien and a wild, techno-organic world!
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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Your top 20 sci-fi books - listener survey results!
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May 28, 2024 |
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2024 Nebula nominees - 3 great books on this short list!
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May 07, 2024 |
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Metro 2033 - The book that inspired the hugely popular video games!
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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The Martian - Poop, Taters, and Tenacity
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Roadside Picnic - the book that inspired Stalker and Metro 2033!
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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The Expanse - Full series review!
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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We - The book banned by the Soviets that inspired 1984!
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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Beyond Lies the Wub by Philip K. Dick - complete short story audiobook!
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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The Mountain in the Sea - Octopuses, AI, and the struggle to communicate!
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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The Top 15 Sci-Fi Books of All Time!
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Permutation City - A mind-bending look at the singularity, consciousness, and immortality!
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Interview with Peter Watts - Author of Blindsight!
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Spin - A first contact book that starts with a bang (and the stars going out)!
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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1984 - The techno-surveillance dystopia that keeps coming true!
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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2023 Hugo Nominees - plus 3 great SF books that should have made the list!
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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The Dispossessed - Anarchy, capitalism, and fighting for freedom across two planets!
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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The Road - the best post-apocalyptic book ever written?!
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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Solaris - An intensely creative, mind-blowing first contact book!
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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The Expanse - Books 1 thru 3 - the biggest space opera of the modern era!
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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Fahrenheit 451 - book propaganda or flamethrower celebration?
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick's best book?
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May 23, 2023 |
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Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of 2022: Part 1 - The Nebula Nominees
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May 09, 2023 |
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Brave New World - Sex, Drugs, and Dystopia
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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Providence by Max Barry - an AI battleship, a hapless crew, and black-hole spewing aliens!
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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Interview with Becky Chambers - author of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet!
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Contact by Carl Sagan - a scientifically grounded and totally ground-breaking first-contact story!
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson - The wildly entertaining book that invented the Metaverse!
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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The Andromeda Strain - A scientific thriller about an alien virus!
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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The Handmaid's Tale - A chilling, theocratic dystopian classic!
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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Dark Matter - A sci-fi thriller that is way too fun to put down!
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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Double Star - A hilarious, lighthearted book that is a perfect introduction to Robert Heinlein!
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Parable of the Sower - A very real dystopia that helped launch Afrofuturism!
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Behind the scenes with Seth Fishman - agent for Cixin Liu, Ann Leckie & more!
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Blindsight - A haunting, mindblowing first contact book!
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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Interview with Ken Liu - author of the Paper Menagerie!
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Author interviews from the Hugo Awards - Seanan McGuire, Ryka Aoki, and Joe Haldeman!
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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The Windup Girl - A gene-hacking dystopia full of anti-heroes!
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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Ancillary Justice – A unique take on AI and a sprawling, complex galactic empire!
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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Ranking the best sci-fi books of 2021! Who are the frontrunners to win the Hugo award?
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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House of Suns - An epic space opera with solid science!
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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The Machine Stops - A dystopian short story that feels almost too real! (analysis episode)
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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The Machine Stops - Complete Short Story Audiobook with Full Cast!
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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Interview with David Brin - Hugo and Nebula award-winning author of Startide Rising and the Postman!
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Foundation - The rise and fall of a galactic empire!
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May 31, 2022 |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - The funniest thing to ever happen to sci fi!
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May 17, 2022 |
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Station Eleven - A character-driven post-apocalyptic survival story!
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May 03, 2022 |
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The Three Body Problem - some of the biggest ideas in sci fi!
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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Ted Chiang's short stories - Like the optimistic version of black mirror episodes!
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Ender's Game - The page turner where empathy is a superpower!
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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An interview with Joe Haldeman, author of The Forever War!
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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Children of Time - A book so good it makes you root for the giant spiders!
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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The Mars Trilogy - colonizing and terraforming Mars!
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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Rendezvous with Rama - What if an alien ship flew into the solar system?
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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The City and the City - A Mystery in a Mystery!
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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The Left Hand of Darkness - an incredible book that shattered the glass ceiling in sci fi
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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A Fire Upon the Deep - Aliens and AI and Internet Trolls, oh my!
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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Hyperion - A space epic with a classic literary twist
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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The Vorkosigan Saga: what INCREDIBLE main characters!
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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A Canticle for Leibowitz: Who knew the nuclear apocalypse could be so funny?
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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Dune: Do you like sand?
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Oct 19, 2021 |